Rants

[klinkinparkfan]

EDUCATE YOURSELVES.

STOP BEING SUCH ANGRY, HATEFUL, IDIOTS.

[Ayria]

YOU LOOK LIKE A GIRL BUT REFER TO YOURSELF AS A GUY!

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? I'M SO ANGRY AND CONFUSED AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DIRECT MY ANGER!

[SaintCervixCancer]

Hey, who's that handsome guy in your icon? I bet he chops firewood.

[40_feet_below]

They're one of the last groups of people in America that are still considered more or less socially acceptable to mock and ridicule. It bites. 

[Kinnolo]

Well if you go by socially acceptable, you can still get away with mocking anyone that isn't American indian.

[BunnyBomber]

They're probably republicans.

[_Star_Wolf_]

They don't care to educate themselves. They just want to hate something, because they are idiots and their minds will never evolve past the point they are currently at.

In fact, throughout the years they'll probably just regress into an angrier and more hateful idiot.

Hopefully people will start ignoring them so that the stupidity can die off.

[PiginthecityBlue]

Lost Tribes.

[Buddyroe360]

So this isn't about transfats?

[scrapyard]

while i dont know any trans g ppl personaly

i got very attached 2zoe/zarf on all my children

all my children soap was the 1st show 2put transgndr person on daytime tv

it was the BEST soap in the UNIVERSE but abc cxld it last sept 2put on a food show -___-

anyways

if u have soapnet u can see zoe/zarf on at 1am est!

or yt

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=all+my+children+zoe&o
q=all+my+children+zoe&aq=f&aqi=g1&a...

[westpark]

NEEDS MOAR TRANNY

[GiantMegaDoucheX]

Everyone here should take this test.

I got 9/16...there are some crazy traps out there.

I have no hatred for the transexual...as long as they're up front about it.

[EvilsergE]

The fact that they (hopefully) never reproduce, keeps me calm.

[_Star_Wolf_]

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EvilsergE wrote:
The fact that they (hopefully) never reproduce, keeps me calm.

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You are why we need to regulate reproduction.

[stilgar]

i love trans

[itsacoaster]

This weekend I attended a training in order to become a resource for LGBT folks that may be afraid of being judged, or losing their jobs, or something like that. They call it the "Ally" program. I did it because one of my gay friends back home works with LGBT youth, and his making a difference made me want to help, too. Full disclosure: I'm a breeder.

I've always been pretty open minded toward this stuff. But admittedly, even though I accepted and tolerated transgendered individuals, I had difficulty understanding what they were going through. I mean, as someone who's pretty darn happy with the fact that he's male, it's hard for me to imagine why someone might not think they fit with their physical gender. So, when I decided to do the Ally training, one of the things I hoped is that they would spend some time talking about what transgendered folks are going through. Not just for the training, but for the several transgendered folks on the boards.

Luckily, they did spend some time on it. They had a student panel, and one of the panelists was a FTM transsexual who had his top surgery not too long ago. I took the opportunity to pick his brain. I asked him if there was a memory from his childhood where he knew that he didn't fit in his female body. (I hope I don't get into pronoun trouble in this flashback.) He told me that when he was really young, he would go to bed and pray really hard that he would wake up a boy the next morning instead of a girl. He said that when he developed breasts, he viewed them as a deformity. I found this pretty eye-opening.

A couple other things I learned that I didn't know before: (1) Gender identity disorder is a real medical condition. (2) As soon as you have a sense of being an individual, between the ages of 3 and 7, you know already that what you feel doesn't match your physical attributes. I also called my aforementioned gay friend back home to tell him that I was doing the Ally training, and he gave me another good analogy: imagine if I grew up being forced to wear dresses and makeup and pigtails, and forced to wear the color pink, and forced to play with Barbie dolls when I wanted to cut my hair short and play with cars. That really helped me get an idea of what kind of struggle transgendered folks experience.

I'm not going to defend people's bigotry and close-mindedness, because those folks are as**oles. I will defend to an extent people's lack of understanding, because if it was tough for me to try and understand what these people are going through, it is certainly going to be a struggle for others. They really do just need to sit down and talk about it with someone, or if they're me, take a 3-hour class. If they have an open mind, they'll listen. My hope is that I can also help people learn and understand what transgendered people are going through, because y'all deserve it as human beings.

[psycho_raven]

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itsacoaster wrote:
This weekend I attended a training in order to become a resource for LGBT folks that may be afraid of being judged, or losing their jobs, or something like that. They call it the "Ally" program. I did it because one of my gay friends back home works with LGBT youth, and his making a difference made me want to help, too. Full disclosure: I'm a breeder.

I've always been pretty open minded toward this stuff. But admittedly, even though I accepted and tolerated transgendered individuals, I had difficulty understanding what they were going through. I mean, as someone who's pretty darn happy with the fact that he's male, it's hard for me to imagine why someone might not think they fit with their physical gender. So, when I decided to do the Ally training, one of the things I hoped is that they would spend some time talking about what transgendered folks are going through. Not just for the training, but for the several transgendered folks on the boards.

Luckily, they did spend some time on it. They had a student panel, and one of the panelists was a FTM transsexual who had his top surgery not too long ago. I took the opportunity to pick his brain. I asked him if there was a memory from his childhood where he knew that he didn't fit in his female body. (I hope I don't get into pronoun trouble in this flashback.) He told me that when he was really young, he would go to bed and pray really hard that he would wake up a boy the next morning instead of a girl. He said that when he developed breasts, he viewed them as a deformity. I found this pretty eye-opening.

A couple other things I learned that I didn't know before: (1) Gender identity disorder is a real medical condition. (2) As soon as you have a sense of being an individual, between the ages of 3 and 7, you know already that what you feel doesn't match your physical attributes. I also called my aforementioned gay friend back home to tell him that I was doing the Ally training, and he gave me another good analogy: imagine if I grew up being forced to wear dresses and makeup and pigtails, and forced to wear the color pink, and forced to play with Barbie dolls when I wanted to cut my hair short and play with cars. That really helped me get an idea of what kind of struggle transgendered folks experience.

I'm not going to defend people's bigotry and close-mindedness, because those folks are as**oles. I will defend to an extent people's lack of understanding, because if it was tough for me to try and understand what these people are going through, it is certainly going to be a struggle for others. They really do just need to sit down and talk about it with someone, or if they're me, take a 3-hour class. If they have an open mind, they'll listen. My hope is that I can also help people learn and understand what transgendered people are going through, because y'all deserve it as human beings.

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The world needs more people like you.

[Glodson]

That was absolutely well said. Like you, my gender and my biological sex match, so I do not completely understand what it is like to be transgendered. However, what you wrote was excellent. I really don't think I can praise it enough.

[valiente16]

I love all people...except racists. They can die in a fire

[klinkinparkfan]

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psycho_raven wrote:

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itsacoaster wrote:
This weekend I attended a training in order to become a resource for LGBT folks that may be afraid of being judged, or losing their jobs, or something like that. They call it the "Ally" program. I did it because one of my gay friends back home works with LGBT youth, and his making a difference made me want to help, too. Full disclosure: I'm a breeder.

I've always been pretty open minded toward this stuff. But admittedly, even though I accepted and tolerated transgendered individuals, I had difficulty understanding what they were going through. I mean, as someone who's pretty darn happy with the fact that he's male, it's hard for me to imagine why someone might not think they fit with their physical gender. So, when I decided to do the Ally training, one of the things I hoped is that they would spend some time talking about what transgendered folks are going through. Not just for the training, but for the several transgendered folks on the boards.

Luckily, they did spend some time on it. They had a student panel, and one of the panelists was a FTM transsexual who had his top surgery not too long ago. I took the opportunity to pick his brain. I asked him if there was a memory from his childhood where he knew that he didn't fit in his female body. (I hope I don't get into pronoun trouble in this flashback.) He told me that when he was really young, he would go to bed and pray really hard that he would wake up a boy the next morning instead of a girl. He said that when he developed breasts, he viewed them as a deformity. I found this pretty eye-opening.

A couple other things I learned that I didn't know before: (1) Gender identity disorder is a real medical condition. (2) As soon as you have a sense of being an individual, between the ages of 3 and 7, you know already that what you feel doesn't match your physical attributes. I also called my aforementioned gay friend back home to tell him that I was doing the Ally training, and he gave me another good analogy: imagine if I grew up being forced to wear dresses and makeup and pigtails, and forced to wear the color pink, and forced to play with Barbie dolls when I wanted to cut my hair short and play with cars. That really helped me get an idea of what kind of struggle transgendered folks experience.

I'm not going to defend people's bigotry and close-mindedness, because those folks are as**oles. I will defend to an extent people's lack of understanding, because if it was tough for me to try and understand what these people are going through, it is certainly going to be a struggle for others. They really do just need to sit down and talk about it with someone, or if they're me, take a 3-hour class. If they have an open mind, they'll listen. My hope is that I can also help people learn and understand what transgendered people are going through, because y'all deserve it as human beings.

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The world needs more people like you.

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This. 

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[Kneon_Knight]

Just what the fuuuuuudge are you talking about?  State a cause, get on the soapbox then ####.

-10/10 for epic fail to state a cause.

[itsacoaster]

I really appreciate the positive feedback from all three of you.

[Pay_No_Attention]

Mutilating yourself and taking hormones your body didn't devlop to naturally produce because you have no identity beyond external labels is a form of mental illness. You're like those whiny pathetic little losers who are all "IF ONLY I HAD A GIRLFRIEND, MY LIFE WOULD BE BETTER," "IF ONLY I HAD THIS, MY LIFE WOULD BE BETTER," "IF ONLY I HAD THAT." The reason suicide and depression rates among post-op trans is so high is because, they get it done and realize, "Well, here I've mutilated myself, and still I feel empty, still I lack an identity and personality, and now I get to face social ostracization too!"

Here's an idea, construct your own identity and personality and quit having your entire identity hanging on what externals label you as. NO, HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SOMETHING REASONABLE! YOU'RE PHOBIC AND INTOLERANT!

[Pay_No_Attention]

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Glodson wrote:
That was absolutely well said. Like you, my gender and my biological sex match, so I do not completely understand what it is like to be transgendered. However, what you wrote was excellent. I really don't think I can praise it enough.

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Gender is an arbitrary social construct, though, that is different across different societies, cultures and eras. We live in the era of existentialism, nihilism, post-modernism, we construct our own meaning, our own values, we're not shackled to traditional gender roles or value (which, were never, ever consistent, ever). We can choose what roles we fill, what traits and values we practice, everything about gender is open to our choice and whims, the only part of gender we can't control is how external sources judge and label us and our behavior, but that's the case for everyone on everything.

Hell, I don't "feel" my gender in a way which conforms to society's standards of what a male should be. Society says i should be a sports-obssessed, car-obssessed, ####-obssessed thoughtless #### who can only show positive or aggressive emotions (and my aggressive emotions must be socially acceptable) and who voluntarily chooses to take on the responsibilities of others for myself to prove to everyone that I'm a realy adult man and not a little boy or girly-man. But hey, i said fuuuuuudge it, and redefined what it means for me to be a man and to really say fuuuuuudge it in regards to gender and focus more on being an individual person beyond labels, whose identity is defined by my own beliefs and values and actions and not by dressing myself up in a costume and defining myself as whatever society calls my costume.

[_Star_Wolf_]

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Pay_No_Attention wrote:

Mutilating yourself and taking hormones your body didn't devlop to naturally produce because you have no identity beyond external labels is a form of mental illness. You're like those whiny pathetic little losers who are all "IF ONLY I HAD A GIRLFRIEND, MY LIFE WOULD BE BETTER," "IF ONLY I HAD THIS, MY LIFE WOULD BE BETTER," "IF ONLY I HAD THAT." The reason suicide and depression rates among post-op trans is so high is because, they get it done and realize, "Well, here I've mutilated myself, and still I feel empty, still I lack an identity and personality, and now I get to face social ostracization too!"

Here's an idea, construct your own identity and personality and quit having your entire identity hanging on what externals label you as. NO, HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SOMETHING REASONABLE! YOU'RE PHOBIC AND INTOLERANT!

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You know absolutely nothing.

Male and female are very real things, gender roles are what you're referring to. Please learn this. Please understand that the male and female brain work differently, males and females naturally behave differently, and actually research scientific theories as to why transgenderism happens.

It is not "OH MY GOD IF I ONLY HAD THIS, MY LIFE WOULD BE BETTER" It's that someone legitimately doesn't feel right being the sex they are. Most transexuals realize this before anything you're saying actually comes into play. Not that you'd know this, as you obviously haven't researched jack #### on the subject.

Actually the suicide rate is so high because of people like you, mixed with the depression that already comes with getting the wrong chromosome. Also where are you getting the "lack of an identity and personality" from? Because they obviously have one.

You aren't being reasonable. Your opinions and suggestions are invalid, because they are based around nothing but ignorance and lack of any real research on the subject. Instead of buying into the typical crap that people believe because they're too lazy to #### read, maybe you should think for yourself for a change.

Come back and try again later, kid.